BCL provides Mainframe Capacity Planning and Performance Reporting for z/OS systems. Our step-by-step approach creates a roadmap for the future, enabling us to predict demand, plan upgrades, improve productivity, and gain a competitive edge through better management of overall IT resources.
Mainframe capacity planning is the estimation of future computing resources for your system and network that are required to meet business needs. This plan is achieved through software tools that review historical data. Using this data and your known business objectives, we work with you to develop a vendor-independent strategy.
Accurately forecasting business strategy and projected growth is a primary focus for many Information Technology (IT) managers today.
They are asking:
What satisfies the information technology needs of today?
What will be the path that allows a company the ultimate in future scalability?
What are the short- and long-term costs and benefits?
Accurate performance evaluations and capacity planning provide those answers. They reduce risk, prevent over- or under-provisioning, and align infrastructure decisions with business strategy, ensuring service levels and budgets remain predictable.
We begin by collecting and validating historical workload and system data. Using proven tools, we establish baselines, identify trends, and correlate findings with your growth objectives. Together, we define assumptions and service targets. Then we model future states and produce an actionable plan.
Our evaluations explicitly account for modern z/OS facilities that change how performance and capacity should be measured, including sysplex and parallel sysplex, UNIX System Services (formerly OpenMVS), APPC/MVS, TCP/IP, and the z/OS Workload Manager (WLM). These facilities affect workload distribution, communication patterns, and goal-based resource allocation, so we build them into both current assessments and forward-looking scenarios.
BCL focuses on practical outcomes. We translate metrics into plain-English reporting with clear recommendations you can act on. Because our strategy is vendor-independent, you get objective guidance grounded in your data, not tied to any single tool or supplier. The result is a plan that answers today’s needs, preserves future scalability, and clarifies the short- and long-term costs and benefits.
Our experience with z/OS features and mixed workloads helps you avoid capacity surprises, improve throughput and response times, and justify upgrade timing with confidence.
Our mainframe consolidation services are beneficial for organizations that need to simplify or centralize their IT infrastructure. Some examples of who can benefit from this service include:
BCL is here to support businesses and organizations with structured and reliable service throughout the entire mainframe consolidation process.
Contact our team today to get started. We’ll baseline your environment and deliver a z/OS capacity and performance roadmap that aligns resources with business objectives and keeps your mainframe running efficiently.
Mainframe as a Service (MFaaS) is a fully managed service that delivers mainframe computing capabilities via the cloud or hybrid infrastructure. Instead of owning and maintaining expensive on-premise mainframes, clients can access secure, scalable, and high-performance mainframe resources on a subscription basis.
We support a wide range of critical workloads, including:
Whether you’re in finance, healthcare, government, or retail, we can handle your enterprise-class workloads.
Security is our top priority. Our MFaaS environments are hosted in SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and/or FedRAMP-compliant data centers. We implement:
We also support compliance with HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GDPR, and other regulatory frameworks.
Absolutely. We provide end-to-end migration services including:
We’ve completed dozens of successful migrations with minimal disruption.
Our pricing is transparent and consumption-based. It typically includes:
We tailor packages to each client’s specific needs to maximize value and efficiency.
Yes. We specialize in maintaining legacy systems while enabling a path toward modernization. Services include:
We operate multiple secure, geographically redundant data centers across North America, ensuring business continuity, high availability, and compliance with data residency requirements. On-premise and hybrid hosting models are also available.
Our clients include mid-sized to large enterprises, government agencies, and service providers in:
They rely on us for mission-critical uptime, operational excellence, and deep mainframe expertise.
It’s simple:
Our team will guide you every step of the way.
Mainframe Services
BCL Mainframe Services will help you better align IT services to business priorities by lowering the cost of operating and maintaining your own on-premise Enterprise Server. By teaming with BCL services you get a Managed Service Provider that is skilled & experienced in delivering IBM mainframe system services, custom fit for purpose to meet your needs.